NJ’s The Gaslight Anthem have announced their summer/fall tour plans. First, the band will head out for some dates with Signal to Noise; hitting the midwest, southwest, northwest (and joined by Whole Wheat Bread for two shows) and California, then working their way back east towards Texas. There, they will meet up for a run of dates opening for Against Me!, working their way through the south. Next, the group will head over to Europe for a stretch of dates in Germany.

Three of the bands will be touring in support of new albums; with the Gaslight Anthem releasing Sink or Swim, Signal to Noise with Kodiak and Against Me! preparing to release New Wave on July 10th.

We’ll be running a very special contest soon, with albums and merch from some of the aformentioned bands, concert tickets and…gasp…Punknews.org gear. Keep an eye out for that one.

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Interpol has posted the second new songrom their major label debut. The record is titled Our Love To Admire and is due out July 10, 2007. It is the follow-up to Antics which was released in 2004. The band has also released the cover art for the record and you can find that on the album’s release detail page.

You can check out the song here: “Pioneer to the Falls.”

The band recently outlined a summer worth of tour dates.
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Jack White of the White Stripes recently sat down with MTV to discuss the radio station which leaked the entirety of their new album. He had called the station and harshly reprimanded the DJ and received a fair bit of criticism from other media outlets.

He explained his side:

When you’re famous, you’re not allowed to have any kind of reaction unless it’s completely positive and saying, ‘I love rainbows and stars,’ on Entertainment Weekly or ‘Entertainment Tonight’ or whatever those shows are called,

But this radio station — in this instance — I was having a private conversation with somebody, and they wanted to exploit it and try to make even more press out of the situation. But that’s what usually happens nowadays. … Jack White the singer and songwriter isn’t reacting to you; it’s the president of Third Man Records — our record label — calling you and asking for an explanation. I’m not screaming and yelling at anybody. I’m just saying, ‘Who did it? Tell me why you did it.’ [They reacted] like I called up and threatened to burn down the building or something. For God’s sake.”

He goes on to discuss the music climate:

I think it’s a shame for generations coming up that everything is ‘now, now, now’ and that they’re getting everything from a mouse click. We have people who get upset that you can only buy a T-shirt at our shows! That’s upsetting to people. So it’s kinda hard in this age where you get everything instantly to tell people that they have to wait. Let alone if it’s the rules. People can’t help but rebel against any kind of rules.

The band delivered Icky Thump earlier this week.
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